After contemplating a good bit about whether or not I should start this thread, I've obviously decided to forge ahead and do so, duh. My main reason is due to all of 'our' negative leaning threads and the topics which they contain. My secondary reason is because my 2 GB of RAM arrived yesterday and I'm quite impressed going from 1 gig to 3 . So on with the show...
I am "happy as hell" because I finally got my RAM. 2 GB OCZ Platinum series. Sweet looking and awesome performance. Of course the first thing I did after installing, and running certain memory tests for a few hours, was load up DA.
Let me just say, I seem to be able to have my gigantic, all abundant galaxies again as I had no CTD's during my gameplay. I ran FreeRAM on the other monitor just to observe things. FreeRAM must not pick up on more than 2 gigs but I ran this game with about 1800 RAM available at it's lowest. Normally, when I was running 1 GB the game seemed to drain 500 to 600 mb, thus prompting a CTD within the next few turns. The game would constantly drain RAM.
Now, with the new memory, once the game 'bottomed out' so to say, sucking up it's 500 to 500 mb's of RAM or so it 'stopped'. Gradually, I watched the RAM actually raise up to 2040 mb and hold steady until I finally had to save and quit... wife came home AND electrical storms rolled in (I'm wondering if the two are somehow related, the wife and weather that is, but that's not necessarily important right now). Also impressed with how fast the game shut down vs. how it usually did... lagging that is. I'm not going to spout off too much about it as it seems that as soon as I give this game praise it thwarts me so...
Anyhow, please feel free to share what has or might make you happy today and let's talk some positives for a change. Later guys!!!